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No more cheap skirts: Trump ends tax exemption for low-value Chinese imports

The tariff costs threaten the U.S. operations of companies like Shein and Temu.

FILE – A worker loads boxes of goods from a truck outside a wholesale clothing mall in Beijing on June 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

In this July 28, 2014 photo, a house and out-buildings are surrounded by wind turbines in Calumet, Okla. A decade ago, states offered wind-energy developers an open-armed embrace, envisioning a bright future for an industry that would offer cheap electricity, new jobs and steady income for large landowners. Today, many of the same political leaders who initially welcomed the wind industry want to regulate it more tightly. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Gov. Polis, lawmakers consider plan to accelerate Colorado’s clean energy transition

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a joint news conference with Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP)

Pentagon watchdog to review Hegseth’s use of Signal app to convey plans for Houthi strike

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Venezuelan migrant teen from Colorado is among deportees taken to prison in El Salvador
Trump’s tariffs aren’t strictly reciprocal. Here’s how he calculated them
K-12 schools must sign certification against DEI to receive federal money, administration says

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Watch: Trump announces new ‘reciprocal’ tariffs in financial and political gamble

Trump insists the moves will strengthen the U.S. economy.

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The Colorado State Capitol building in Denver on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Colorado Democrats call for “a reckoning” on TABOR and taxes, as GOP vows to “fight very hard”

A plan unveiled by a group of Colorado lawmakers aims to fundamentally change state tax policy and eliminate the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR.

Senate Bill 201 would require such websites to verify each potential user’s age by employing commercially available, independently certified technology highly effective in establishing that an individual is not a child.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves his office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 25, 2025. Johnson on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, tried and failed to kill a bipartisan effort to change House rules so that new lawmakers would temporarily be allowed to vote remotely after the birth of a child, suffering an embarrassing defeat that signaled that the proposal could soon be adopted. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Johnson fails to kill bipartisan measure to allow proxy voting for new parents

After the vote, Johnson abruptly canceled votes for the rest of the week, sending members...

Local Politics

LEFT — Aurora mayor Mike Coffman on Jan. 9, 2020. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post) RIGHT — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on July 18, 2023. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Icy relationship: Tension is building between the Denver and Aurora mayors — and not for the first time

The distrust between Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has devolved to...

Joe Biden

FILE – Families and victims advocates participate in a prayer walk around the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to mark Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day in Albuquerque, N.M., Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

FBI sending extra agents to 10 states including Colorado to work unsolved violent crimes in Native American communities

The FBI will be working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit,...

Donald Trump

A screen displays financial news as traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Fear that Trump tariffs will spark recession wipes out $2 trillion in value from US stock values

Banks, retailers, clothing, airlines and technology companies were among the hardest hit.

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